The majority of MPs voted for members of the House of Commons Backbench Business Committee to be elected by members of political parties rather than, as was the case previously, by the whole House of Commons.
MPs were considering a motion[1] on the arrangements for operation of the Backbench Business Committee, including membership of the committee and the election of chair.
The committee is responsible for allocating certain periods of parliamentary time for "backbench business"; MPs can apply to it if they wish to get see particular motion debated in the House of Commons or in Westminster Hall.
The first paragraph of the motion stated:
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(1) this House endorses the principle that parties should elect members of the Backbench Business Committee each Session and thereafter when a vacancy arises in a secret ballot of all Members of that party by whichever transparent and democratic method they choose.
The amendment rejected in this vote was:
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Amendment (d), leave out paragraph (1).
MP Peter Bone explained the intent of his amendment during the debate saying[2]:
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The Government are proposing that future members of the Committee will be elected by party group. There are two distinct disadvantages to that proposal. The first—I suggest that this is the reason for it—is that it will give the Government, as well as the shadow Government, greater influence in deciding who is elected to the Backbench Business Committee. Through their Whips Offices, they will try to engineer more pliable Members to be elected to the Committee. I believe that this will make the Committee much more divided on party lines. In all the time that the current Committee has met, there has been only one vote, and that did not divide it along party lines. The Government’s proposal will reduce the likelihood that independent parliamentarians will be elected to the Committee.
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Secondly, the authority that members of the Committee hold is greatly enhanced by their being chosen by the whole House. Their mandate comes from Back Benchers of all political persuasions, not by a narrow party group.
The Backbench Business committee was previously elected by the whole house subject to constraints[3] that:
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(i)such a number of candidates shall come from each party represented in the House or those of no party as shall be determined and announced in advance by the Speaker, in such a way as to ensure that the committee including the Chair reflects as closely as possible the composition of the House, and
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(ii)at least two women and two men shall be elected.
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Debate in Parliament | Source |
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell?
'+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a
teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both
aye and no in the same division. The boths
page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against
the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Includes MPs who were absent (or abstained)
from this vote.
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | aye |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | no |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | no |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | no |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con | no |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | no |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con | no |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con | no |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | no |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | no |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | no |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | no |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con | no |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | no |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con | no |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con | no |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con | no |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con | no |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con | no |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con | no |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | no |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | no |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | no |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | no |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con | no |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | no |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | no |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con | no |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | no |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con | no |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | no |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con | no |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | no |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con | absent |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | absent |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | absent |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | absent |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | absent |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | absent |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | absent |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con | absent |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con | absent |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con | absent |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | absent |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con | absent |
| Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | absent |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con | absent |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | absent |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | absent |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | absent |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | absent |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | absent |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | absent |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | absent |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab | no |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | both |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab | absent |
| Hugh Bayley | York Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab | absent |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab | absent |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab | absent |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | absent |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab | absent |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | absent |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | absent |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | absent |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab | absent |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab | absent |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab | absent |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab | absent |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | absent |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | absent |
| Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | absent |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | absent |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | absent |
| David Miliband | South Shields | Lab | absent |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab | absent |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Rotheram | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | absent |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | absent |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | absent |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd | Lab | absent |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | absent |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | absent |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab | absent |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | absent |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | absent |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab | absent |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem | no |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | no |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | both |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | absent |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem | absent |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Pat Doherty | West Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Michelle Gildernew | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Paul Maskey | Belfast West | SF | absent |
| Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | absent |
| Conor Murphy | Newry and Armagh | SF | absent |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | Speaker (front bench) | absent |
